OUT OF ZION, THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY, GOD SHINETH.

Zion, July 26, 2012

 

"I'll tell you a story that happened long ago,

When the English came to America, I s'pose you all know,

They could'nt whip the Yankees, I'll tell you the reason why,' Uncle Sam made 'em sing Root Hog or Die."

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

(Old Testament | Psalms 50:2)

Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.

(Book of Mormon | Alma 37:6 - 7)

The Secret of the Romney’s Family success is no mystery. It is a matter of principle and a life lesson worthy of emulation in both bountiful and distressed times. It is not about greatness but in their own words, it is merely about small and simple things.

Small and simple things.

http://www.lds.org/ensign/2010/08/small-and-simple-things?lang=eng

“Root Hog or Die”

Many people may not know this, but a BRANCH of the Romney Family were refugees from Mexico. And believe it or not, they built success here and there which is still very alive today. And they did it the American way or by hard work, effort, determination, unmovable faith in God, honor, honesty and above all they were pillars of UNITY; or in other words they learned to “root hog or die.”

In their most difficult circumstances the Romneys joined together or they would not have made it when they came back from Mexico after having lodged there for a very long time; and so should we if we desire to abide the great and dreadful day of the LORD which is nigh at hand.  In other words or as President Romney would have said it;  ROOT HOG OR DIE. My words do not do justice to Roots of the Romney Family; therefore, here is the tale as related by of a pillar of their own household.

As an anchor of truth and the voices of dust, I have personally interacted with President Romney, even last night or early this morning in paradise in the visions of the night dream. What a beautiful place I saw when I was transported there. I myself have seen it. And if it was not paradise, it must have been the earth in its renewed state or the embodiment of Zion, the everlasting dwelling place of God.   And this is how I would describe it: OUT OF ZION, THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY, GOD SHINETH.

I saw it in my dream even as the Evangelist or Patriarch Charles D, Evans did in his vision of the future. Please pardon the redundancy, but for to me, Even, Evangelist, Patriarch and Evans pretty much means the same thing four times. And since all truth stands upon four legs as a table, what I saw in my dream  must be true. But here is an excerpt of Bishop Evans in his vision which I also partially experienced last night.

OUT OF ZION, THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY, GOD SHINETH.

http://chapmanresearch.org/PDF/The%20Prophetic%20Vision%20of%20Charles%20D%20Evans.pdf

“The light of the Gospel which had but dimly shone because of abomination, now burst forth with a lustre that filled the earth. Cities appeared in every direction, one of which, in the center of the continent, was an embodiment of architectural science after the pattern of eternal perfections, whose towers glittered with a radiance emanating from the sparkling of emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and other precious stones set in a canopy of gold, and so elaborately and skillfully arranged as to shed forth a brilliancy which dazzled and enchanted the eye, excited admiration and developed a taste for the beautiful, beyond anything man had ever conceived.

Fountains of crystal water shot upwards their transparent jets, which, in the brilliant sunshine, formed ten thousand rainbow tints at once delightful to the eye.

Gardens, the perfection of whose arrangement confound all our present attempts at genius, were bedecked with flowers of varied hue to develop and refine the taste and strengthen a love for these nature's chastest adornments.

Schools and universities were erected, to which all had access; in the latter, Urims were placed for the study of the past, present, and future, and for obtaining a knowledge of the heavenly bodies, and of the construction of worlds and universes. The inherent properties of matter, its arrangements, laws, and mutual relations were revealed and taught and made plain as the primer lesson of a child. The conflicting theories of geologists regarding the foundation and age of the earth were settled forever. All learning was based on eternal certainty. Angels brought forth the treasures of knowledge which had laid hid in the womb of the dumb and distant past.

 The appliances for making learning easy surpass all conjecture. Chemistry was rendered extremely simple, by the power which the Urims conferred on man of looking into and through the very elements of every kind; a stone furnished no more obstruction to human vision than the air itself. Not only were the elements and all their changes and transformations plainly understood, but the construction, operations and laws of mind were thus rendered equally plain as those which governed the coarser elements.

While looking through the Urim and Thummim, I was amazed at a transformation, which even now is to me marvelous beyond description, clearly showing the manner in which particles composing the inorganic kingdom of nature are conducted upward to become a part of organic forms; another astounding revelation was a view clearly shown me of the entire circulation of the blood, both in man and animals.

After seeing these things and gazing once more upon the beautiful city, the following passage of scripture sounded in my ears: "OUT OF ZION, THE PERFECTION OF BEAUTY, GOD SHINETH."

On this I awoke to find all a dream. I have written the foregoing, which is founded on true principle, under the caption of a dream, partly to instruct and partly to check the folly of reading silly novels now so prevalent.”

CHARLES D. EVANS, Springville, Utah

I saw President Romney; and I saw many Urim and thummims as laptops over clrystal celar pools of water and I understood that he who was there was guiding me to search his own words; and so should you.

This is how this tale starts according to Elder Marion G Romney in first person according to  what is eternally written;

 “I really wonder what has gone wrong with father …

Now I bear you my testimony, brothers and sisters, that I know this matter of tithing is a true principle and that blessings come from it. My parents taught me to pay tithing, and in the words of Enos I say, to their honor,

“blessed be the name of my God for it.” (Enos 1:1.)

Perhaps you are aware that my family were refugees from Mexico. During the years that followed our arrival in the United States, Father had a difficult time getting enough food to feed his family. I remember the time about two years after we came out of Mexico (that would be about 1914) when Father got a job in Oakley, Idaho, teaching in the Cassia Academy for $80 a month.

When Father and his brother left Mexico, they both had large families. Knowing that they would have a difficult time making a living (they brought nothing out of Mexico except what they could bring in one trunk), they joined together and pooled their earnings. After a short stay in El Paso, Texas, they went together to Los Angeles, California, where they worked as carpenters. Later they moved to Oakley, Idaho, where they could raise their families in a Latter-day Saint environment. When one of them was out of work, they divided the income of the other and thus eked out an existence for both families. My uncle was out of work one winter in Idaho. That left them the $80 my father received for teaching with which to support about seventeen people. They had to pay rent; they had to buy everything they ate; and they would have had to buy fuel, except I went out on the hillside and dug the sagebrush from under the snow for fuel. I kept warm digging, and Mother kept warm poking it into the stove.

The question came up in the family council—should father pay tithing on that $80? If he didn’t he would have $40 a month to care for the family; if he did, it would be cut down by $4, and he would have $36 a month. I remember that council, and I remember that they decided they would pay their tithing; and I remember they sent me with the tithing to the bishop. It was cold, and I didn’t have warm clothes; I really wondered what had gone wrong with Father. But I learned from that—the training of my parents—I learned there is truth in the Lord’s promises.

I know that you have a great feeling if you live the law of tithing. I remember a time just after my wife and I married; I was working my way through school, and I was working at the post office eight hours a day and carrying a full course of law. We had lost a baby, and we had a large hospital bill. I decided to quit the post office and start the practice of law. I quit in September and failed to pay tithing that month because I had built up a retirement benefit with the government that was to be paid to me in November; I felt I could pay my tithing with that. But it didn’t come in November, and it didn’t come in December. I had to report that year to my bishop that I had not paid a full tithe. But I did not feel good about it, so I kept a record and paid it in installments at eight percent interest until I had paid the deficit in full. I had a good feeling after I got it paid. I knew the Lord had understood and accepted my performance.

I tell you now that I know from my own experience, and I bear you my witness as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ—a special witness that I am happy to bear to all the world under any circumstances—that there is a peace and a comfort and assurance that comes to one who will pay an honest tithing, a liberal tithing. If you ever come to a time when you don’t know how much you owe, pay a little more. It is better to pay too much than too little.”

[illustration] Illustrated by Peggy Procto

ZION IS UNION

http://www.lds.org/ensign/2010/08/unity?lang=eng

These things I humbly say as a messenger of the covenant who is endowed with the keys of salvation under the direction and counsel of the holy one who is without beginning of days or end of life. And I do it for the glory and honor of God in preparation of the way for his glorious advent; and also for your temporal and eternal profit upon obedience and faithfulness; and I do it  as one having authority in the sacred name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Attentively yours from an unworthy servant in the hands of Christ

 Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez